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Griffin Technology iMic USB External Sound Card | List Price: $39.99
Discount Price: $30.94
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Brand: Griffin Technology
Binding: Electronics
Features: - USB audio adapter for connecting microphones, phonographs, cassette decks, and other sources to your computer
- Records voices or instruments or converts LPs and cassettes to MP3s and CDs
- 1/8-inch input jack offers both mic and line-level signals
- 1/8-inch output jack connects to headphones or speakers for playback
- Easy to set up and use; compatible with USB-equipped Macs and PCs
iMIC Rocks! [Posted on 2008-01-27]
I just bought this device through Amazon and I absolutely LOVE it! I have some hard to find audio collection on audio cassettes, which I was hanging on to, but thankfully I can now discard them now that I have the entire content digitized and saved on my computer in MP3! The iMIC device is pretty much plug-n-play. However, you will need to download an audio capture program. I really like "Audacity", which is a shareware program and has some VERY powerful sound editing features. For example, removing that annoying "hiss" from the cassete sound is a snap with Audacity. You will also need to download MP3 encoder (Audacity website has this information). One word of caution: they claim that Audacity is not compatible with Windows Vista, but I had no problem with it to capture the audio. However, I could not export it into MP3. Not sure why, but I used my Windows XP computer and everything worked nicely. iMIC + Audacity is a great combo!
Be careful when ordering this item from Amazon! [Posted on 2008-03-06]
Twice now I've tried to order the external sound card, the first time from TechNGnet and the last time from Target, and both times I received the iMic Hi Resolution USB Audio Capture device, which is NOT a sound card, it just filters out interference and artifacts from audio imported from vinyl, I guess. I have no use for it, now I have two laying around that I need to return. How the heck do I order the external sound card, if I can't even get it from this page which clearly has it displayed and described at the top? Irritating.
It doesn't work on Vista [Posted on 2008-03-26]
I just bought this and it won't work on my machine. I searched the Griffin site and it said that the device doesn't work on Vista. Of course, neither the box nor any of the online advertising mentions this. I guess it sucks to be me.
Works Perfect for Ripping Vinyl [Posted on 2008-05-07]
I bought this product to rip vinyl with my Numark portable turntable, my ibook G4, and the Audacity software. I'm very happy with the results. I couldn't do it without the imic, because I don't have an input jack on my laptop.
not what I thot it was [Posted on 2008-05-08]
This product does not do what i wanted it to, so it doesn;t do me any good, I didn't know how to return it.
Thanks Helen Newbanks
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